Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 1, Episode 18 - "Dramatis Personae"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2018
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "Dramatis Personae," things are tense on Deep Space Nine. Everyone is talking about choosing sides between Commander Sisko and Major Kira. Meanwhile, they are actually leading opposing sides! The only ones acting normal are Odo and Quark. Could all of this weirdness have to do with that Klingon who beamed aboard right after blowing up his ship and right before dying? Did THAT have to do with the psychic orbs his crew was researching? How will this play out?
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| 0:00.0 | RPN, the Rotenberry Podcast Network. |
| 0:04.0 | This episode of Mission Log is sponsored by The Great Courses Plus, |
| 0:08.0 | hundreds of courses, thousands of lectures, tons of stuff that you want to know. |
| 0:14.4 | Try it for free for one month at The Great Courses Plus.com slash Mission Log. Mission Log. |
| 0:24.0 | A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast. |
| 0:27.0 | Episode 285 Dramatous Personi |
| 0:31.0 | I person I. Welcome into Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm Can Ray. |
| 0:54.0 | And I'm going to kill you. |
| 0:57.0 | I mean, I'm John Champion. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm sorry, what was that first part? |
| 1:01.0 | Each week on Mission Log, we watch an episode of Star Trek taking it apart for messages, morals, and meanings, |
| 1:07.0 | and we secretly plot ways to kill Ken. |
| 1:15.0 | I don't think that's right. Yeah, it's not. |
| 1:17.0 | It just starts secret. |
| 1:19.0 | Then we plot openly. |
| 1:21.0 | Hmm. |
| 1:22.0 | This week, Dramatous Personi, the one where everybody's just playing their part and that they're playing somebody else's part. |
| 1:32.0 | John's got trivia coming up in a bit, but first. |
| 1:34.9 | Oh, but first. |
| 1:36.2 | A reminder, a really quick reminder about another show we do. |
| 1:40.0 | It's Mission Log Live, every Tuesday night, assuming we both survive, Ken and I get together |
| 1:46.0 | with you to talk Trek. |
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